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Nov 2021
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There's No Good Plan to Stop 100,000 Opi...

CHRISTIANITY TODAY
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100,000 Americans died from April 2020 to April 2021 due to opioids, according to numbers released this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The majority of the deaths have come via fentanyl, which accounted for more than 75 percent of all fatalities. Most of the time fentanyl has been used in combination with drugs like methamphetamine ... Show More
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